"إضافات وتصحيحات لمسرد الشخصيات الهامة في بلاد فارس (المجلد IV)" [و‎‎٧‎٠] (٣١٢/١٤٦)

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MIBZA ABUL WASIM KHAN, BASIR-US-SULTA-
NEH. Born 1880. Eldest son of late Haji Mirza
Asadullah Khan, 'Mutashir-ul-Mnlk. The third in
descent from a native of India, Mirza Abul Qasim
who on pilgrimage from India to Meshed was
attacked by bandits between Dashtarjin and Shiraz
and lost his mother and brothers killed. Accord
ing to Farmans from Fath Ali Shah and Husain Ali
Mirza his son the Prince Governor-General of Ears,
Mirza Abul Qasim was then granted in compensation
for a claim put forward by the British agent, the
village of Sirizjun near Shiraz and an annual pen
sion, with the special permission of owning property
even if he elected to remain a British subject.
These Farmans were endorsed by others to ins
descendants by Muhammad Shah, Nasir-ud-Din Shah,
Muzaffar-ud-Din Shah, and a Persian Cabinet after
the Constitution. The late Haji Mustashir-ul-Mulk
and his father were for several decades the confiden
tial secretaries of the Ilkhanis of the Qashqai : and
In conjunction with the Ilkhanis Zargham-ud-Douleh
and Soulat-ud-Douleh acquired shares in a vast
number of villages in some six or seven districts cf
Fars, now inherited by Basir-us-Sultaneh and his
brother and sister. Haji Mustashir-ul-Mulk and his
sons have always claimed British protection as
British subjects and are registered. See his brother
Mirza Ali Khan, Basir Diwan, and his brother-;n-
law Imad-ul-Mulk.
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MjRZA ABUL WASIM KHAN, NASIR-UL-MULK II.
Born about 1852. Son of Haji Mirza Abdullali
Khan (1815-1888) deputy-guardian of shrine at Meshed,
who was elder son of Fathullah Khan (1798-1826),
youngest brother of Haji Qawam-ul-Mulk I. Mother
was a daughter of Haji Qawam-ul-Mulk I.
First a Mustaufi, with little possessions, then a munshi
of his father’s first cousin Haji Mirza Hasan All,